A Pilgrimage in Europe and America: Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River: With a Description of the Whole Course of the Former and of the Ohio; in Two Volumes
A Pilgrimage in Europe and America: Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River: With a Description of the Whole Course of the Former and of the Ohio; in Two Volumes
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to ... where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3No one is ignorant that it was a woman who prevented the commission of that atrocious crime to which a mighty monarch was instigated by the counsels of cruel man against the people of God?that, by the noble devotion and tender mediation of the Sabine women, Tatius and Romulus were enabled to fix the foundations of that state whose growing power and splendour at length rendered her ...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to ... where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3No one is ignorant that it was a woman who prevented the commission of that atrocious crime to which a mighty monarch was instigated by the counsels of cruel man against the people of God?that, by the noble devotion and tender mediation of the Sabine women, Tatius and Romulus were enabled to fix the foundations of that state whose growing power and splendour at length rendered her mistress of the world ?that by Lucretia and Virginia the Romans, in two instances, recovered their liberty, ?and that by Volumnia and Ve- turia they were extricated from the awful vengeance of a formidable and justly irritated warrior. Tell your insolent detractors, moreover, that the women of Sparta trained the heroes of Thermopylae and Platea?; and to the women alone of modern Greece we must ascribe the revival of ancient heroism on that favourite and classic soil, while the men have frequently exhibited, and indeed are still exhibiting, instances of rapacity, intrigue, and merely selfish ambition. Had the Greeks but imitated the example of their disinterested Section 4and devoted women; had they displayed so much patriotism and union on their own part as they have received assistance and support from others, (I do not mean from the self-styled textit{Philheltenists, but from a vast number of sincere and liberal friends, ) they would by this time have subdued the tyrant whom the European powers now offer to them as a textit{Sovereign Paramount, and .who will perhaps shortly be succeeded by another textit{Sultan, differing in textit{turban, but similar in despotism. Remind your illiberal and unjust opponents, that women had first the merit of elevating the minds of emperors and kings to the pure light of Christianity, by associating it to the nuptial bed, and consequently introducing it to all the courts and nations of Europe? t.
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